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137Cs can be an important environmental contaminant due to fallout from nuclear reactor accidents and atomic weapons testing. Its contribution to the air gamma dose rate at 1 m height above contaminated ground depends on...

The target of this research is removing transition metals of Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, W, Cd from soil due to nanomaterial-based gallium nitride nanocage (B5N10-nc). The electromagnetic and thermodynamic attributes of toxic transi...

Abstract Man-made synthetic/manufactured nano-objects (MNOs) are increasingly used in almost every scientific sector, including pharmaceutical, agricultural, food, and drug industries worldwide. Rapid advances in nanotec...

The triaxial permeability tests on cement-gravel soil are conducted using the improved triaxial test apparatus. Various factors including cement mixing ratio, gravel content, degree of compaction and seepage pressure tha...

The statistics of uncertain rock and soil parameters can be updated with the information from different sources such as in-situ measurements and field observations via probabilistic back analysis, which can be further us...

Prosocial propensity refers to an individual’s general inclination to act for the benefit of others. Notably, psychological research has often defined “others” narrowly, limiting the term to humans. However, some a...

A physical modelling system is developed to study the pull-out mechanism of embedded soil anchors using transparent soil and particle image velocimetry (PIV). In the system, two different continuous ball shape anchors ar...

The expanding deployment of biodegradable mulch films in global agriculture aims to mitigate persistent plastic pollution, yet the fate of resulting biodegradable microplastics (BMPs) in soil ecosystems remains poorly ch...

The turnover rate of labile organic fractions varies continuously due to different soil uses and managements, weather conditions and sampling time. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of different agricultur...

Understanding how socioeconomic development modulates trait–environment linkages in the Anthropocene, particularly its mechanistic role in reshaping the relative importance of climate versus soil drivers, remains poorl...

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of agricultural intensification on soil microbial diversity, chemical and physical parameters, and the decrease of the incidence of sudden death syndrome (Fusarium c...

Abstract The process of industrialization of arid areas can rapidly surpass the pace of environmental monitoring, which leaves a gap in the knowledge of long-term processes of soil degradation. Although conventional moni...

In order to observe the effected strip of geogrid-reinforcement, a series of geogrid pull-out tests are conducted in a test box which has one Plexiglas wall, applied 4 different vertical pressures on each specimen prepar...

The quantitative contribution of shoot and root organic matter (OM) to the soil carbon (C) stock is still unknown, mainly because of methodological restrictions. The novel measurement of the nonexchangeable hydrogen (H) ...

Understanding soil properties is fundamental to sustaining the ecological integrity of protected forest ecosystems. This study examined the influence of two management categories; Strict Nature Reserve (SN) and Natural P...

Abstract The necessity for sustainable soil management arose due to soil degradation caused by intense agricultural soil cultivation, which employs chemical fertilizers to increase production. Soil degradation can be rem...

The soil disturbance deformation induced by sampler penetration has a significant influence on the physical and mechanical properities of soil in soil investigation engineering. A series of small-scale model tests with d...

Aims: Plants interact by modifying soil conditions in plant-soil feedback processes. Foliar endophytes of grasses exert multiple effects on host rhizosphere with potential consequences on plant-soil feedback. Here, we hy...

Agricultural intensification simplified environments, reduced their diversity, and hindered their ecosystem processes. Permanently vegetated areas (uncultivated margins) embedded in the cultivated matrix play a critical ...

The inorganic materials adopted in the improvement of expansive soil engineering include lime and cement. During the construction process, the improving effect is greated influenced by the mixing uniformity of the soil c...

Soil tilth is one of the key indicators reflecting soil viability for agricultural use. It results from the interaction of morphological properties such as texture, structure, and consistency, which are influenced by geo...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

Since the coefficients of variation of soil properties vary in a large range, the real reliability index for the soil slope designed using the partial factor method also fluctuates in a range. This drawback limits the ap...

Soil moisture is an important part of the land water cycle. It affects ecosystem health, agricultural output, and climate regulation. Several factors influence its variability, especially land use and land cover (LULC). ...